Maps redesing for 2.0... cities too?!

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Originally Posted by Zyph

Wouldn't that make more sense for Ul'dah? What with the Coliseum and all?

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I believe they're turning that into an all you can eat Italian buffet.

We had a talk with Yoshida about this, and he let us know that the three city-states won't be completely redesigned from the ground up after the launch of 2.0. However, areas that caused a lot of frustration or weren't very convenient might have some changes made to them.

I wished they were cities instead of forts.

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Originally Posted by Rokien

I wished they were cities instead of forts.

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They are cities inside of forts. There's a difference.

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Originally Posted by Denmo

They are cities inside of forts. There's a difference.

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sorry but this feels a lot more like a city than any of the places in FFXIV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnMD3leaaRM&feature=related

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

We had a talk with Yoshida about this, and he let us know that the three city-states won't be completely redesigned from the ground up after the launch of 2.0. However, areas that caused a lot of frustration or weren't very convenient might have some changes made to them.

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/sadface :(

Ah, but I'm happy about almost everything else regarding 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

We had a talk with Yoshida about this, and he let us know that the three city-states won't be completely redesigned from the ground up after the launch of 2.0. However, areas that caused a lot of frustration or weren't very convenient might have some changes made to them.

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That is extremely dissapointing, the cities in the game are bland and boring much like the rest of the world.

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

That is extremely dissapointing, the cities in the game are bland and boring much like the rest of the world.

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While a redesign would be nice... just opening up more areas in the cities would definitely go a long way
They just start to feel so small the longer you play this game

My concern is where will things like an auction house go, player housing? I do not want to see a repeat of everything being entererd through the market wards. The grand companies should have a visable base within the city as should the main story place and an auction house. There is nothing partically interesting to look at within the cities they lack colour and are pretty damn awful in comparison to XI's. I'll reserve further judgement until I see 2.0 but this does have me slightly concernerd.

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

We had a talk with Yoshida about this, and he let us know that the three city-states won't be completely redesigned from the ground up after the launch of 2.0. However, areas that caused a lot of frustration or weren't very convenient might have some changes made to them.

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This is a shame. The cities were designed by monkeys it seems... the only somewhat acceptable design is uldah's.

Seriously, take a look at sandoria, windurst, bastok. Windurst had a pretty lousy design so it needed teleport npcs, and here on xiv every city needs those...

I'd also like to see more lively cities. With npcs going on with their lives and stuff.